"What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called Christ?"
Pilate asked. They all answered, "Crucify Him!" "Why?
What crime has He committed?" asked Pilate. But they
shouted all the louder, "Crucify Him!" Mat. 27:22-23
"Him . . . you have taken, and by wicked hands
have crucified and slain!" Acts 2:23
"Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has
made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord
and Christ!" Acts 2:36
O, since their crucifying of the Lord of glory—the Jews
have never laid their finger upon the right sore; to this
very day they won't acknowledge their sin in crucifying
of the Lord of glory. They realize that God has sorely
afflicted them; but their cruelty to Christ, their crucifying
of Christ, which ushered in the total ruin of their city and
country—they cannot be brought to acknowledge to this
very day, though the Lord has burnt them up on every
hand, and has scattered them as dung all over the earth
to this very day!
A learned writer tells us that the Jews call Christ, "a
bastard;" and his Gospel, "the Volume of Lies," or "the
Volume of Iniquity;" and us Christians "heathen". When
they greet a Christian, they call him, "Devil". They hate
all Christians—but none so much as those who are
converted from Judaism to Christianity, and all this
after so great a burning and desolation that the Lord
has made in the midst of them!
"As He approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept
over it and said—If you, even you, had only known on
this day what would bring you peace—but now it is
hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you
when your enemies will build an embankment against
you and encircle you and hem you in on every side.
They will dash you to the ground, you and the children
within your walls. They will not leave one stone on
another, because you did not recognize the time
of God's coming to you." Luke 19:41-44
It is certain that the majority of the Jews are under
woeful blindness and hardness to this very day!
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Thomas Brooks (1608 - 1680)
Much of what is known about Thomas Brooks has been ascertained from his writings. Born, likely to well-to-do parents, in 1608, Brooks entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1625, where he was preceded by such men as Thomas Hooker, John Cotton, and Thomas Shepard. He was licensed as a preacher of the Gospel by 1640. Before that date, he appears to have spent a number of years at sea, probably as a chaplain with the fleet.After the conclusion of the First English Civil War, Thomas Brooks became minister at Thomas Apostle's, London, and was sufficiently renowned to be chosen as preacher before the House of Commons on December 26, 1648. His sermon was afterwards published under the title, 'God's Delight in the Progress of the Upright', the text being Psalm 44:18: 'Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Thy way'. Three or four years afterwards, he transferred to St. Margaret's, Fish-street Hill, London. In 1662, he fell victim to the notorious Act of Uniformity, but he appears to have remained in his parish and to have preached as opportunity arose. Treatises continued to flow from his pen.[3]
Thomas Brooks was a nonconformist preacher. Born into a Puritan family, he was sent to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He soon became an advocate of the Congregational way and served as a chaplain in the Civil War. In 1648 he accepted the rectory of St. Margaret's, New Fish Street, London, but only after making his Congregational principles clear to the vestry.
On several occasions he preached before Parliament. He was ejected in 1660 and remained in London as a Nonconformist preacher. Government spies reported that he preached at Tower Wharf and in Moorfields. During the Great Plague and Great Fire he worked in London, and in 1672 was granted a license to preach in Lime Street. He wrote over a dozen books, most of which are devotional in character. He was buried in Bunhill Fields.